I never would have imagined this "odd couple" together but the gating was an ingenious idea!

banging!

awesome i think we can pull off something rad

WS, I added no additional sound sources. The trebly stuff is Paul Muller's piece, which is actually a kind of Steve Reich-ish texture with a midi chamber ensemble. I gated it so it only sounds when David's guitar (which is also slightly gated) reaches a certain threshold. There's a tiny bit of release and then additional decay from reverbs (different one for the guitar). Can't remember what I else I did, mostly sweetneing. For me, a fairly "hands-off" mash, compared to what I usualy do, and an experiment in discongruity, or even cognitive dissonance (I'm a sucker for that stuff). Anyway, again, it's formally still David's wonderfully spasmodic improvisation, but with Muller's contrasting sound also being uttered with every guitar gesture. So it's little improv experiment and I liked the way it sounded.

geez, i can t possibly feel right being crude around you gentlemen, beautiful job

interesting idea, Chris; indeed this could turn into a song of sorts. It was just a quick IF mash where Paul's continuous consonant minimalist texture is chopped into discrete chunks by virtue of being gate-triggered by David's raucous guitar. I also declined my usual pitch-shifting and enjoyed the found intervallic & xenharmonic dissonances; & discongruity in general (mood/texture/tonality). So to me it's more like a hyper-instrument extension of David's original improvisation.

this is ok - I must admit I'd like to hear this with some shuffling percussion and a bass line to paste it together - and bring out that lead instrument a bit more. Its always dangerous to compose someone else's piece - so forgive me if the idea sounds ludicrous.

my goodness, thanks for finding some beauty in my grunty angst spasm of a rhythm lead. Paul's song is new to me, i think it's gorgeous.

http://alonetone.com/chimps8myears/tracks/kjashnthstash hey bruce, just for fun i went at it with arate shifter and various synth

fawllowed by a shadow. good stuff!

Great composition!

Nice use of silence and note formation. Great!

strong force.

Does this have binaural beating? Very cool and unusual piece!

around 1:00 it gets scary and captivating like your trapped in your own nightmare and you can't get up. great job.

I like the rhythmic dynamics on this 'un and how it floats in and out of a sonic haze.

nice - an odd juxtaposition - the first part sort of jumps arouns and the 2nd part sounds like a dark basement you shouldn't enter...

@vaisvil, pretty much; it's a lot of pasting, stacking, pitch-shifting, time-shifting of the original utterance (no extra samples used).

I like this! Is this then playing back a single phrase multiple ways?

cool track, gritty soundscape with contrast.

a feast for my ears!

Looks like maybe few people have left... I'm back here to thank folks again. I finally released an "art rock" album that includes an updated version of this song. I was very nervous about singing and the nice comments here helped push me towards making the rest of the album (which is called Greener Grass, by Jostaberry, on Bandcamp and the streaming sites). So thanks, Len, and whoever was here before!

persistent with surprises! cool

Thanks, guys! Appreciate it a lot.

thanks guys. it was a Reason sampler patch (maybe a dulcimer?) retuned with LMSO and then with some stern LFO filters.

no one does low/dark better than you

very cool; I could imagine a notated chamber version of this as well.

Does just what it needs to do.

thanks guys!

very nice

hells yeah. as they say.

heartfelt...I dig it!

very nice!

very cool track here! as for freezing have you ever used GRM Tools Freeze or Riverrun? the former esp does a very nice job with any source. & thanks for the comments. as for "shook me", it had chunks processed in MetaSynth; then arranged w/more processing in DP.

nice! and such a comfy sounding tuning.

fantastic sound and lovely playing!

yes

really digging this

thanks you guys; the winners were announced a few days ago. I quite liked my entry and that's why I'm spreading it around now.

very nice rendition; loyal treatment, yet different enough to warrant sharing.